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Understanding Hybrid-Identity Organizations: The Case of Publicly Listed Family Businesses

In: Understanding Family Businesses

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  • Börje Boers

    (Jönköping International Business School)

  • Mattias Nordqvist

    (Jönköping International Business School)

Abstract

Family businesses are characterized by the combination of two institutions – the family and the business – that are traditionally assumed to be based on different identities (Tagiuri and Davis 1996; Ward 1987). Based on this fundamental feature of family businesses, we develop the idea of the family business as a hybrid-identity organization (Arregle et al. 2007; Foreman and Whetten 2002). Borys and Jemison (1989) define hybrids as “…organizational arrangements that use resources and/or governance structures from more than one existing organization” (p. 235), and Albert and Whetten (1985) define hybrid-identity organizations as “…an organization whose identity is composed of two or more types that would not normally be expected to go together” (p. 95).

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  • Börje Boers & Mattias Nordqvist, 2012. "Understanding Hybrid-Identity Organizations: The Case of Publicly Listed Family Businesses," International Studies in Entrepreneurship, in: ALAN CARSRUD & Malin Brännback (ed.), Understanding Family Businesses, chapter 0, pages 251-269, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:inschp:978-1-4614-0911-3_15
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0911-3_15
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    1. Boers, Börje & Ljungkvist, Torbjörn & Brunninge, Olof & Nordqvist, Mattias, 2017. "Going private: A socioemotional wealth perspective on why family controlled companies decide to leave the stock-exchange," Journal of Family Business Strategy, Elsevier, vol. 8(2), pages 74-86.
    2. Bessler, Wolfgang & Beyenbach, Johannes & Rapp, Marc Steffen & Vendrasco, Marco, 2021. "The global financial crisis and stock market migrations: An analysis of family and non-family firms in Germany," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 74(C).
    3. Andreana Drencheva & Wee Chan Au, 2023. "Bringing the Family Logic in: From Duality to Plurality in Social Enterprises," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 182(1), pages 77-93, January.
    4. Wielsma, Albertha J. & Brunninge, Olof, 2019. "“Who am I? Who are we?” Understanding the impact of family business identity on the development of individual and family identity in business families," Journal of Family Business Strategy, Elsevier, vol. 10(1), pages 38-48.
    5. Rebecca Alguera Kleine & Bingbing Ge & Alfredo Massis, 2024. "Look in to look out: strategy and family business identity during COVID-19," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 63(3), pages 993-1018, October.

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